Ilza Veith, “The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine “, 1949 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Ilza Veith, “The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine “, 1949, PART TWO (II). Ilza Veith translation into English of the Chinese text was the first in the English language.
INTRODUCTION.
Computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra once remarked, “A picture may be worth a thousand words; a formula is worth a thousand pictures”. The Yellow Emperor in the “Classic of Internal Medicine” presented his Numerical Formula of Acupoints. The formulation is from zero (0) to three-hundred and sixty (360).
COMMENTS.
The Ancient Chinese development of writing independently of the earlier Mesopotamia’ cuneiform writing is significant. BELOW is a list of dyslexia (readless) genes. The Ancient Chinese discussed dyslexia in terms of their time. The list of acupoints BENEATH is the concept of “periodicity” for the Ancient Chinese. The “molecular element periodic table” did not exist. Dyslexia is the inability to read; and, writing just invented was discussed in terms of numerical formula of acupuncture.
| 0 | Meeting Yin | CV1 |
| 1 | Curved Bone | CV2 |
| 2 | Middle Summit | CV3 |
| 3 | Gate Origin | CV4 |
| 4 | Stone Door | CV5 |
| 5 | Qi Sea | CV6 |
| 6 | Yin Intersection | CV7 |
| 7 | Spirit Shrine | CV8 |
| 8 | Water Divide | CV9 |
| 9 | Lower Venter | CV10 |
| 10 | Established Mile | CV11 |
| 11 | Mile Venter | CV12 |
| 12 | Upper Venter | CV13 |
| 13 | Great Shrine | CV14 |
| 14 | Turtledove Tail | CV15 |
| 15 | Middle Courtyard | CV16 |
| 16 | Chest Middle | CV17 |
| 17 | Jade Hall | CV18 |
| 18 | Purple Palace | CV19 |
| 19 | Lustrous Cover | CV20 |
| 20 | Pearl Jade | CV21 |
| 21 | Celestial Chimney | CV22 |
| 22 | Screen Spring | CV23 |
| 23 | Fluid Receptacle | CV24 |
| 24 | Long Strength | GV1 |
| 25 | Loins Hollow | GV2 |
| 26 | Loins Yang Gate | GV3 |
| 27 | Life Gate | GV4 |
| 28 | Suspended Axis | GV5 |
| 29 | Spinal Center | GV6 |
| 30 | Middle Axis | GV7 |
| 31 | Muscle Contraction | GV8 |
| 32 | Yang Reach | GV9 |
| 33 | Spirit Tower | GV10 |
| 34 | Spirit Path | GV11 |
| 35 | Body Pillar | GV12 |
| 36 | Kiln Path | GV13 |
| 37 | Big Hammer | GV14 |
| 38 | Mute Gate | GV15 |
| 39 | Wind Mansion | GV16 |
| 40 | Brain House | GV17 |
| 41 | Between Strength | GV18 |
| 42 | Posterior Summit | GV19 |
| 43 | Hundred Meetings | GV20 |
| 44 | Anterior Summit | GV21 |
| 45 | Fontanel Meeting | GV22 |
| 46 | Upper Star | GV23 |
| 47 | Spirit Courtyard | GV24 |
| 48 | Element Star | GV25 |
| 49 | Water Channel | GV26 |
| 50 | Exchange Terminus | GV27 |
| 51 | Gum Junction | GV28 |
| 52 | Great Honesty | LR1 |
| 53 | Walk Between | LR2 |
| 54 | Great Surge | LR3 |
| 55 | Middle Seal | LR4 |
| 56 | Insect Ditch | LR5 |
| 57 | Middle Capital | LR6 |
| 58 | Knee Gate | LR7 |
| 59 | Crooked Spring | LR8 |
| 60 | Yin Wrap | LR9 |
| 61 | Foot Five Mile | LR10 |
| 62 | Yin Screen | LR11 |
| 63 | Quick Pulse | LR12 |
| 64 | Chapter Door | LR13 |
| 65 | Cycle Gate | LR14 |
| 66 | Central Mansion | LU1 |
| 67 | Cloud Gate | LU2 |
| 68 | Celestial Mansion | LU3 |
| 69 | Chivalry White | LU4 |
| 70 | Cubic Marsh | LU5 |
| 71 | Opening Maximum | LU6 |
| 72 | Broken Sequence | LU7 |
| 73 | Meridian Ditch | LU8 |
| 74 | Great Abyss | LU9 |
| 75 | Fish Border | LU10 |
| 76 | Lesser Merchant | LU11 |
| 77 | Merchant Yang | LI1 |
| 78 | Second Interval | LI2 |
| 79 | Third Interval | LI3 |
| 80 | Union Valley | LI4 |
| 81 | Yang Stream | LI5 |
| 82 | Inclined Passageway | LI6 |
| 83 | Warm Current | LI7 |
| 84 | Lower Integrity | LI8 |
| 85 | Upper Integrity | LI9 |
| 86 | Arm Third Mile | LI10 |
| 87 | Crooked Pool | LI11 |
| 88 | Elbow Seam | LI12 |
| 89 | Arm Five Mile | LI13 |
| 90 | Arm & Scapula | LI14 |
| 91 | Shoulder Hollow | LI15 |
| 92 | Great Bone | LI16 |
| 93 | Celestial Vessel | LI17 |
| 94 | Support & Rush | LI18 |
| 95 | Grain Bone Hole | LI19 |
| 96 | Welcome Fragrance | LI20 |
| 97 | Tears Containers | ST1 |
| 98 | Four Whites | ST2 |
| 99 | Great Seam | ST3 |
| 100 | Earth Granary | ST4 |
| 101 | Big Welcome | ST5 |
| 102 | Jaw Vehicle | ST6 |
| 103 | Lower Gate | ST7 |
| 104 | Head Maintain | ST8 |
| 105 | Man’s Welcome | ST9 |
| 106 | Water Prominence | ST10 |
| 107 | Qi Abode | ST11 |
| 108 | Empty Basin | ST12 |
| 109 | Qi Door | ST13 |
| 110 | Storeroom | ST14 |
| 111 | Room Screen | ST15 |
| 112 | Breast Window | ST16 |
| 113 | Breast Center | ST17 |
| 114 | Breast Root | ST18 |
| 115 | Not Contained | ST19 |
| 116 | Assume Fullness | ST20 |
| 117 | Beam Door | ST21 |
| 118 | Gate Door | ST22 |
| 119 | Great Second | ST23 |
| 120 | Slippery Meat Gate | ST24 |
| 121 | Celestial Pivot | ST25 |
| 122 | Outer Mound | ST26 |
| 123 | Big Gigantic | ST27 |
| 124 | Waterway | ST28 |
| 125 | Return | ST29 |
| 126 | Surging Qi | ST30 |
| 127 | Thigh Gate | ST31 |
| 128 | Crouching Rabbit | ST32 |
| 129 | Yin Market | ST33 |
| 130 | Beam Hill | ST34 |
| 131 | Calf Nose | ST35 |
| 132 | Leg Three Miles | ST36 |
| 133 | Upper Great Void | ST37 |
| 134 | Line Opening | ST38 |
| 135 | Lower Great Void | ST39 |
| 136 | Abundant Bulge | ST40 |
| 137 | Ravine Divide | ST41 |
| 138 | Pouring Yang | ST42 |
| 139 | Sinking Valley | ST43 |
| 140 | Inner Courtyard | ST44 |
| 141 | General Exchange | ST45 |
| 142 | Hidden White | SP1 |
| 143 | Big Capital | SP2 |
| 144 | Supreme Whiteness | SP3 |
| 145 | Grandfather’s Grandson | SP4 |
| 146 | Merchant Mound | SP5 |
| 147 | Three Yin Junction | SP6 |
| 148 | Leaky Valley | SP7 |
| 149 | Earth’s Crux | SP8 |
| 150 | Yin Mound Spring | SP9 |
| 151 | Blood Sea | SP10 |
| 152 | Basket Door | SP11 |
| 153 | Surge Door | SP12 |
| 154 | Mansion Cottage | SP13 |
| 155 | Abdomen Knot | SP14 |
| 156 | Great Horizontal | SP15 |
| 157 | Abdomen Lament | SP16 |
| 158 | Food Drain | SP17 |
| 159 | Celestial Stream | SP18 |
| 160 | Chest Village | SP19 |
| 161 | Encircling Glory | SP20 |
| 162 | Big Enveloping | SP21 |
| 163 | Extreme Wellspring | HT1 |
| 164 | Green Spirit | HT2 |
| 165 | Lesser Sea | HT3 |
| 166 | Spirit Pathway | HT4 |
| 167 | Penetrating Inside | HT5 |
| 168 | Yin Accumulation | HT6 |
| 169 | Spirit Gate | HT7 |
| 170 | Lesser Mansion | HT8 |
| 171 | Lesser Surge | HT9 |
| 172 | Lesser Marsh | SI1 |
| 173 | Front Valley | SI2 |
| 174 | Back Stream | SI3 |
| 175 | Wrist Bone | SI4 |
| 176 | Yang Valley | SI5 |
| 177 | Nursing Aged | SI6 |
| 178 | Branch Correct | SI7 |
| 179 | Small Sea | SI8 |
| 180 | Shoulder Chastity | SI9 |
| 181 | Shoulder Hollow | SI10 |
| 182 | Celestial Ancestor | SI11 |
| 183 | Grasping Wind | SI12 |
| 184 | Crooked Wall | SI13 |
| 185 | Outer Shoulder Hollow | SI14 |
| 186 | Central Shoulder Hollow | SI15 |
| 187 | Celestial Window “Chuang” | SI16 |
| 188 | Celestial Appearance | SI17 |
| 189 | Cheek Seam | SI18 |
| 190 | Auditory Palace | SI19 |
| 191 | Bright Eyes | BL1 |
| 192 | Bamboo Gathering | BL2 |
| 193 | Eyebrow Pouring | BL3 |
| 194 | Deviating Turn | BL4 |
| 195 | Fifth Place | BL5 |
| 196 | Receive Light | BL6 |
| 197 | Reaching Heaven | BL7 |
| 198 | Decline Comment | BL8 |
| 199 | Jade Pillow | BL9 |
| 200 | Celestial Pillar | BL10 |
| 201 | Big Shuttle | BL11 |
| 202 | Wind Door | BL12 |
| 203 | Lung Hollow | BL13 |
| 204 | Absolute Yin Hollow | BL14 |
| 205 | Heart Hollow | BL15 |
| 206 | Governing Hollow | BL16 |
| 207 | Diaphragm Hollow | BL17 |
| 208 | Liver Hollow | BL18 |
| 209 | Gallbladder Hollow | BL19 |
| 210 | Spleen Hollow | BL20 |
| 211 | Stomach Hollow | BL21 |
| 212 | Triple Warmer Hollow | BL22 |
| 213 | Kidney Hollow | BL23 |
| 214 | Qi Sea Hollow | BL24 |
| 215 | Large Intestine Hollow | BL25 |
| 216 | Gate Origin Hollow | BL26 |
| 217 | Small Intestine Hollow | BL27 |
| 218 | Bladder Hollow | BL28 |
| 219 | Middle Backbone | BL29 |
| 220 | White Circle Hollow | BL30 |
| 221 | Upper Seam | BL31 |
| 222 | Second Seam | BL32 |
| 223 | Middle Seam | BL33 |
| 224 | Lower Seam | BL34 |
| 225 | Yang Meeting | BL35 |
| 226 | Supplementary Part | BL36 |
| 227 | Abundance Gate | BL37 |
| 228 | Vital’s Hollow | BL38 |
| 229 | Late Yang | BL39 |
| 230 | Late Middle | BL40 |
| 231 | Add & Divide | BL41 |
| 232 | Soul’s Door | BL42 |
| 233 | Fat Vital’s | BL43 |
| 234 | Thought Shelter | BL44 |
| 235 | Mourn & Delight | BL45 |
| 236 | Vital’s Door | BL46 |
| 237 | Soul Gate | BL47 |
| 238 | Yang Headrope | BL48 |
| 239 | Give Meaning | BL49 |
| 240 | Stomach’s Storehouse | BL50 |
| 241 | Prosperous Gate | BL51 |
| 242 | Aspiration Room | BL52 |
| 243 | Afterbirth Vital’s | BL53 |
| 244 | Order Everywhere | BL54 |
| 245 | Yang Union | BL55 |
| 246 | Supporting Muscle | BL56 |
| 247 | Mountain Support | BL57 |
| 248 | Flying High | BL58 |
| 249 | Tarsal Yang | BL59 |
| 250 | Kunlun Mountain | BL60 |
| 251 | Serve & Consult | BL61 |
| 252 | Extended Vessel | BL62 |
| 253 | Gold Door | BL63 |
| 254 | Capital Bone | BL64 |
| 255 | Restrain Bone | BL65 |
| 256 | Foot Valley Connect | BL66 |
| 257 | Yin Reach | BL67 |
| 258 | Gushing Spring | KI1 |
| 259 | Blazing Valley | KI2 |
| 260 | Great Creek | KI3 |
| 261 | Big Bell | KI4 |
| 262 | Water Spring | KI5 |
| 263 | Shining Sea | KI6 |
| 264 | Returning Flow | KI7 |
| 265 | Communicate Letters | KI8 |
| 266 | Guest House | KI9 |
| 267 | Yin Valley | KI10 |
| 268 | Horizontal Bone | KI11 |
| 269 | Great Impression | KI12 |
| 270 | Qi Hole | KI13 |
| 271 | Four Full | KI14 |
| 272 | Middle Flow | KI15 |
| 273 | Vital’s Hollow | KI16 |
| 274 | Merchant’s Bend | KI17 |
| 275 | Stone Gate | KI18 |
| 276 | Yin Capital | KI19 |
| 277 | Abdomen Valley | KI20 |
| 278 | Hades Gate | KI21 |
| 279 | Step Corridor | KI22 |
| 280 | Spirit Seal | KI23 |
| 281 | Spirit Ruins | KI24 |
| 282 | Spirit Storage | KI25 |
| 283 | Amid Elegance | KI26 |
| 284 | Hollow Residence | KI27 |
| 285 | Celestial Pool | PC1 |
| 286 | Celestial Spring | PC2 |
| 287 | Crooked Marsh | PC3 |
| 288 | Accumulation Door | PC4 |
| 289 | Intermediary Courier | PC5 |
| 290 | Inner Gate | PC6 |
| 291 | Big Mound | PC7 |
| 292 | Toil Palace | PC8 |
| 293 | Middle Surge | PC9 |
| 294 | Gate Rushing | TW1 |
| 295 | Fluid Door | TW2 |
| 296 | Middle Islet | TW3 |
| 297 | Yang Pond | TW4 |
| 298 | Outer Gate | TW5 |
| 299 | Branch Divide | TW6 |
| 300 | Meeting Clan | TW7 |
| 301 | Three Yang Connection | TW8 |
| 302 | Four Ditches | TW9 |
| 303 | Celestial Well | TW10 |
| 304 | Clear Cool Gulf | TW11 |
| 305 | Thawing Riverbed | TW12 |
| 306 | Shoulder Meeting | TW13 |
| 307 | Shoulder Seam | TW14 |
| 308 | Celestial Seam | TW15 |
| 309 | Celestial Window “You” | TW16 |
| 310 | Wind Screen | TW17 |
| 311 | Feeding Vessel | TW18 |
| 312 | Skull Rest | TW19 |
| 313 | Angle Vertex | TW20 |
| 314 | Ear Door | TW21 |
| 315 | Ear Harmony Seam | TW22 |
| 316 | Silk Bamboo Hole | TW23 |
| 317 | Pupil Bone Seam | GB1 |
| 318 | Hearing Convergence | GB2 |
| 319 | Upper Gate | GB3 |
| 320 | Jaw Dislike | GB4 |
| 321 | Suspended Skull | GB5 |
| 322 | Suspended Millimeter | GB6 |
| 323 | Twisted Hairline | GB7 |
| 324 | Leading Valley | GB8 |
| 325 | Celestial Pouring | GB9 |
| 326 | Floating White | GB10 |
| 327 | Head Extreme Yin | GB11 |
| 328 | Final Bone | GB12 |
| 329 | Root Spirit | GB13 |
| 330 | Yang White | GB14 |
| 331 | Head Above Tears | GB15 |
| 332 | Eye Window | GB16 |
| 333 | Upright Encampment | GB17 |
| 334 | Spirit Support | GB18 |
| 335 | Brain Cavity | GB19 |
| 336 | Wind Pond | GB20 |
| 337 | Shoulder Well | GB21 |
| 338 | Armpit Gulf | GB22 |
| 339 | Flank Muscle | GB23 |
| 340 | Sun Moon | GB24 |
| 341 | Capital Door | GB25 |
| 342 | Girdle Vessel | GB26 |
| 343 | Five Pivots | GB27 |
| 344 | Maintain Path | GB28 |
| 345 | Dwelling Seam | GB29 |
| 346 | Jumping Circle | GB30 |
| 347 | Wind Market | GB31 |
| 348 | Middle Ditch | GB32 |
| 349 | Knee Yang Gate | GB33 |
| 350 | Yang Mound Spring | GB34 |
| 351 | Yang Intersection | GB35 |
| 352 | Outer Mound | GB36 |
| 353 | Light Bright | GB37 |
| 354 | Yang Support | GB38 |
| 355 | Suspended Bell | GB39 |
| 356 | Mound Ruins | GB40 |
| 357 | Foot Above Tears | GB41 |
| 358 | Earth’s Fifth Convergence | GB42 |
| 359 | Chivalry Stream | GB43 |
| 360 | Foot Extreme Yin | GB44 |
